Damn, The man is allowed to read!!! .. lmao.. I don't even know what to say to you. And I mean hell, at least he can read. I wasn't so sure about
Bush, I was almost certain that when a Bill was placed on his desk it had to be a pop-up!

Every 20 years or so, the end of America is nigh — ever since the 18th century when, in France, Comte de Buffon fingered the country as a den of
degeneracy while Abbé Raynal slammed its cultural poverty: America had not yet produced “one good poet, one able mathematician, one man of
genius.” In 1987, in his book “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers,” the Yale historian Paul Kennedy saw the United States on the road to
perdition — this, four years before the suicide of the Soviet Union, which left America all alone in the penthouse of global power. Now, two decades
on, it is the much-hyped “great power shift” toward Asia that will turn the United States into a has-been.

The real problem, Zakaria argues, is the rise of China, trailed by India. China’s is indeed the most incredible success story in history — a
tale of almost 30 years of growth in the 7-to-10-percent range that seems to defy the laws of economic gravity. The United States, Germany and Japan
had similar tales to tell in the late 19th century, but bust was the price of boom, and for Germany as well as Japan (add Russia, too), headlong
industrialization ended in the horrors of 20th-century totalitarianism.

Sounds like a good book actually.... I'm glad he's reading it. I hope it might install a sense of urgency.. in fact, I think I might buy the book
my self.

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